The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reversing the Pixel 4a battery update
  

  android reversing
  

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• TV Setup
  

  ios
  

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• Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch
  

  hardware
  

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• "Will I ever use this in the real world?"
  

  education math
  

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• Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails
  

  devops
  

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• Using v2ray with Caddy to Access the Internet in China
  

  linux web
  

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• The Death of Email Forwarding
  

  email
  

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• How I Use "AI"
  

  ai practices
  

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• Equinix Sunset, future of gitlab.freedesktop.org
  

  linux
  

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• Hell (Haskell shell)
  

  haskell programming
  

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• Why Trees Without Branches Grow Faster: The Case for Reducing Branches in Code
  

  databases performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sunsetting Cursed Terminal Emulation
  

  osdev
  

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• A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
  

  compilers
  

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• You're thinking about passkeys wrong
  

  security web
  

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• My history with Forth & stack machines (2010)
  

  programming
  

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• MLX — Distributed Computing for Apple Silicon
  

  ai
  

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• Testable Examples in Go
  

  go testing
  

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• Can We Retain the Benefits of Transitive Dependencies Without Undermining Security?
  

  practices programming
  

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• Daily command-line ablutions
  

  practices
  

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• We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer
  

  security
  

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• Handwiki
  

  compsci science
  

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• Data Protection Day: Only 1.3% of cases before EU DPAs result in a fine
  

  privacy
  

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• Bidirectional Typechecking is Bidirectional
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Pebble smartwatches open-sourced
  

  mobile
  

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• DeepSeek FAQ
  

  ai
  

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• Seven things I know after 25 years of development
  

  practices ruby
  

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• Poisoning AI with ".аss" subtitles
  

  video ai art
  

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• Speculation Attacks on Apple M3: SLAP and FLOP
  

  security
  

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• Marginalia - A search engine prioritizing non-commercial content
  

  web
  

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• Spritely Goblins v0.15.0: Goblins in the browser
  

  distributed lisp wasm
  

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• Clone2Leak: Your Git Credentials Belong To Us
  

  security
  

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• In Zig, What's a Writer?
  

  zig
  

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• public-inbox - an "archives first" approach to mailing lists
  

  email
  

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• The First Perfect Computer
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• The Taylorator - All Your Frequencies Are Belong to Us
  

  programming rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Is NixOS truly reproducible?
  

  nix
  

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• My failed attempt to shrink all npm packages by 5%
  

  javascript performance
  

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• Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense, just a power button and a USB port
  

  hardware
  

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• What're the Best Things you Read and Learned in 2024?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Maps are faster in Go 1.24
  

  go
  

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• Pebble smartwatches open-sourced
  

  mobile
  

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• Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering
  

  video graphics
  

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• noria: Fast web applications through dynamic, partially-stateful dataflow
  

  databases
  

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• Fixing my monitor's power button
  

  hardware
  

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• Two Bites of Data Science in K
  

  apl
  

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• Building personal software with Claude
  

  ai practices
  

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• The Future of Microprocessors
  

  video hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What happened to the text colour?
  

  ask meta
  

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• The invalid 68030 instruction that accidentally allowed the Mac Classic II to successfully boot up
  

  assembly debugging reversing
  

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• Hard numbers in the Wayland vs X11 input latency discussion
  

  linux
  

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• snac2 - A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C
  

  c distributed web
  

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• cs16.css: CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
  

  css games
  

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• Exploring the new "go tool" support in Go 1.24
  

  go
  

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• Composable SQL
  

  databases plt
  

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• Much Faster Suspend & Resume For Some Systems With Linux 6.14
  

  linux
  

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• When AI Promises Speed but Delivers Debugging Hell
  

  ai debugging
  

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• ManKier - HTML man pages
  

  linux
  

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• FoA: Ferris-on-Air: An experimental Wi-Fi stack for rust on the ESP32
  

  networking rust
  

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• Engineers don't make public squares. People do
  

  culture
  

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